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Show BAD EFFECTS OF IRRIGATION Cultivation Is Important Feature to Be Considered Water Does Not Improve Fruit Quality. Unless the trees have been vigorously pruned, irrigation has a tendency to produce excessive wood growth even on trees heavily loaded with fruit and in making our trips among the orchards we see this tendency cropping crop-ping out at every place we visit I There are usually fewer culls on irrigated irri-gated trees than are found in a dry orchard. Irrigation tends to keep both wood and foliage more active into the fall and' may send the trees into winter so unripe as to be wholly unfit to withstand the ordeal which this climate places upon every unprotected un-protected thing in this arid country, says the Denver Field and Farm. The use of excessive amount of cold water in the irrigation of pear trees on adobe or sticky soils does not increase the size or quality of the fruit and the result on the trees may be detrimental detri-mental rather than beneficial. Irrigation Irriga-tion can not be made to make up for a poor quality of soil. Cultivation la a more important feature to be considered con-sidered in connection with irrigation which at best merely supplements good tillage. |